Johndis5

First off, the write up is fine. All of you uptight Christian folks should just relax. Atheism is a LITERARY POINT OF VIEW (read the disclaimer) just like every other write up around here every day. Just because today it happens to be poking a little light hearted fun at your God instead of all the other serious things it pokes fun at every day is no reason to get all crusadey. As J5 pointed out the unicorn is often linked to that kind of satire. What would you people have done if it was FAR more obvious, like one of the several flying spaghetti monster shirt entries I've seen? Just take a pill plz, Jesus is not offended. Having a sense of humor means not being so serious about things that matter to you when other people make light of it. Because things like that happen every day, everywhere you go. In America anyway, where we have that kind of freedom. ;)

Secondly, this shirt is FANTASTIC. The whole point of the rule changes giving power to editors is so that great art like this would be printed instead of some of the crud that floats to the top in the vote totals. Did you guys notice the theme for this derby? That unicorn, rainbow, and clouds are drawn with a single continuous line. That's pretty damn cool. And as a dude I'd wear it ironically (think Napoleon Dynamite) and find it hilariously fun. I don't wear unicorns often and would be SUPER picky about the ones I do. This one fits the bill because it's not rainbow colored, it's got fantastic art, and has a neat factoid (hey did you know this is drawn with a single line??). As boots noted it is similar to Fat Unicorn in that it's funny and ironically nerd/anti masculine at the same time.

This shirt has all the fun, quirky traits that could make for a solid Reckoning contender. It would look great on kids, on ladies, and on guys with a sense of humor.

All this weak so called controversy is a joke and I hope you all have just been trolling and I fell for it.

I'm quoting this because all of the way overly PC sticks in the mud need to read it twice.

Also, Artulo is kind of like the Jesus of one line art (see his own entries this week.) and to question his pick on this is pretty much akin to blasphemy.

sigifreud

tomspc wrote:Just when I thought I was through complaining some surfer "dude" drags me back in. I'm entitled to my opinion so don't try to bully me, "dude". You move along...go catch some waves and hang 10, "dude"

You are entitled to your opinion, in fact I welcome it. It's nice to know there are people who believe that someone really believes that people will beat the crap out of you over a t shirt. We all need to keep that in mind.

garners

A) woot's write ups are almost always agnostic to religion, as are the Derby, so it should be no surprise folks don't like this one. I'll consider them "brave" and "edgy" when they mock Allah. Until them, you've got no leg to stand on.

B) some weeks, the top vote getters are artistically questionable. This week, tho, every single design above 16th place is great, along with severable below it. The unicorn is *not* "great" or "ironic" or whatever pretentious adjective you want to throw in front if it. Unless you're a middle-school girl, you should be mocked for wearing it.

wearyeagle

First off, the write up is fine. All of you uptight Christian folks should just relax. Atheism is a LITERARY POINT OF VIEW (read the disclaimer) just like every other write up around here every day. Just because today it happens to be poking a little light hearted fun at your God instead of all the other serious things it pokes fun at every day is no reason to get all crusadey. As J5 pointed out the unicorn is often linked to that kind of satire. What would you people have done if it was FAR more obvious, like one of the several flying spaghetti monster shirt entries I've seen? Just take a pill plz, Jesus is not offended. Having a sense of humor means not being so serious about things that matter to you when other people make light of it. Because things like that happen every day, everywhere you go. In America anyway, where we have that kind of freedom. ;)

Secondly, this shirt is FANTASTIC. The whole point of the rule changes giving power to editors is so that great art like this would be printed instead of some of the crud that floats to the top in the vote totals. Did you guys notice the theme for this derby? That unicorn, rainbow, and clouds are drawn with a single continuous line. That's pretty damn cool. And as a dude I'd wear it ironically (think Napoleon Dynamite) and find it hilariously fun. I don't wear unicorns often and would be SUPER picky about the ones I do. This one fits the bill because it's not rainbow colored, it's got fantastic art, and has a neat factoid (hey did you know this is drawn with a single line??). As boots noted it is similar to Fat Unicorn in that it's funny and ironically nerd/anti masculine at the same time.

This shirt has all the fun, quirky traits that could make for a solid Reckoning contender. It would look great on kids, on ladies, and on guys with a sense of humor.

All this weak so called controversy is a joke and I hope you all have just been trolling and I fell for it.

Well said. Not only are we FREE to say anything in America, but we are NUMBER ONE in the number of adults that "still" think angels are real.

Although, to our credit, we have dropped that tooth fairy, Easter bunny, and Santa Claus idea.

safyrejet

It's rather amusing to me that something as simple as a unicorn shirt would get people so worked up and bring out so many extremes of "I love it!" or "this is awful!" Woot you should print unicorn shirts more often.

I didn't like the write up but not because I thought it was symbolically bashing my God. (Actually I'm more bothered over the "Jesus is not offended" remark, just curious, how do you know? But that's just a rhetorical sorta question, I don't actually care what bluetuba thinks or means by that. I'm not gonna bother to take it seriously, either.) I didn't bother to read the write up through and said so, but don't be alarmed I've got a great sense of humor, and I'm not sure why it's such a problem for me or other folks to state their dissatisfaction with the write up.

It occurs to me that those folks who took some offense at the write up aren't the only ones getting worked up over something. Seems like it's pretty important to some that everyone else not find offense in something that they themselves didn't find offense in. ...sheesh, I'm not even sure that makes sense. Er, how about y'all just chill, including those who are getting bothered over other people being offended or not liking the write up.

I still stand by my thought that "having a different sense of humor doesn't make it non-existant" Some find the write up funny, some don't. After all, "things like that happen every day, everywhere you go. In America anyway, where we have that kind of freedom."

bluetuba

safyrejet wrote:It's rather amusing to me that something as simple as a unicorn shirt would get people so worked up and bring out so many extremes of "I love it!" or "this is awful!" Woot you should print unicorn shirts more often.

I didn't like the write up but not because I thought it was symbolically bashing my God. (Actually I'm more bothered over the "Jesus is not offended" remark, just curious, how do you know? But that's just a rhetorical sorta question, I don't actually care what bluetuba thinks or means by that. I'm not gonna bother to take it seriously, either.) I didn't bother to read the write up through and said so, but don't be alarmed I've got a great sense of humor, and I'm not sure why it's such a problem for me or other folks to state their dissatisfaction with the write up.

It occurs to me that those folks who took some offense at the write up aren't the only ones getting worked up over something. Seems like it's pretty important to some that everyone else not find offense in something that they themselves didn't find offense in. ...sheesh, I'm not even sure that makes sense. Er, how about y'all just chill, including those who are getting bothered over other people being offended or not liking the write up.

I still stand by my thought that "having a different sense of humor doesn't make it non-existant" Some find the write up funny, some don't. After all, "things like that happen every day, everywhere you go. In America anyway, where we have that kind of freedom."

So, you are offended that I took offense to people being offended at a woot joke. The cycle is now complete! Yeeeah!

I'm also a little offended at the people who think this is a simple "coloring book" or that males who wear it should be mocked.

So it's not just me trying to start a religion thing. Quite the contrary actually, I probably only felt the need to chime in because both of those things in unison highly agitate me today.

"You can't just dress a Minion like Spock, and add a caption that says "Logical Me". There's a prison for people like that. Below my house."

safyrejet

bluetuba wrote:So, you are offended that I took offense to people being offended at a woot joke. The cycle is now complete! Yeeeah!

I'm also a little offended at the people who think this is a simple "coloring book" or that males who wear it should be mocked.

So it's not just me trying to start a religion thing. Quite the contrary actually, I probably only felt the need to chime in because both of those things in unison highly agitate me today.

Sorry, I'm not at all offended by your offense or anyone elses' offense or practically anything else going on here. It's all rather amusing and silly to me.

(none of this that follows is directed at any one "you", it's a general "you" I'm employing here) As far as I'm concerned it's just a shirt that you don't have to buy if you don't like it and you don't have to read the write up if you don't like it but for those who didn't like it and found offense it's funny how offended some seem to be getting over someone getting offended. Phew, that's a lot of offense going around. I'm more trying to point out some of what I saw as ironic.

Drakxxx

deborah11565 wrote:Wow... even without a purchase wouldn't you be entitled to an opinion.... Did I cross borders and not realize it ! Good or bad.... we do have a freedom, I thought we did !

Yes! Everyone should definitley have an opinion! In regards to what I mentioned though, you tend to notice things around here when your here for awhile, and I just pointed out something I thought was a funny coincidence.

caherrick

meandsecoya

I could have sworn I had already ordered this for my daughter, who loves all things horse or unicorn. I'm glad I happened to check my account and the reckoning this morning, otherwise, it seems my daughter would have missed out on this one.

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